Prof Stephan Henneberg - personal details

Stephan Henneberg is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is also the Head of the Marketing, International Business, Strategy Division which comprises of around 50 academics. He was previously Post-graduate taught courses Director, responsible for a suite of 25 MSc degrees at MBS. His primary areas of research are in strategic marketing, relational and network marketing, and political marketing. He is a member of the International Marketing & Purchasing (IMP) Group (www.impgroup.org) and the Associate Director of the Manchester IMP Research Group (www.mbs.ac.uk/research/marketingpurchasing/index.aspx) Stephan was a Regional Chair of the Academy of Marketing and is currently the Special Interest Group Chair in Political Marketing.

Stephan serves on several editorial boards of international peer-reviewed journals in the areas of marketing and management studies (eg Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Political Marketing). He reviews regularly for the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Political Marketing, Journal of Business Research and other publications. He has organised several international conferences, ESRC seminars, and PhD colloquia. Recently, he organised the 1st International PhD Colloquium on Political Marketing (2006, Cyprus), the 23rd International Marketing and Purchasing Conference (2007, Manchester), and the 5th International Conference on Political Marketing (2008, Manchester).

Stephan has held several Visiting Professorships, e.g. from Bocconi University (Italy), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), University of Lugano (Switzerland), University of Mainz (Germany). He is external examiner for Queen Mary University, London, and for Liverpool University.

Before coming to Manchester, he was at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK. He received his doctorate in marketing from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, and has degrees in philosophy and social sciences, management studies, art history, and political science. Before coming back to academia, Stephan worked in senior positions as a strategic consultant for A.T. Kearney and McKinsey & Co.

Special issues edited by Stephan Henneberg:

• Theory and Concept Development in Political Marketing, Journal of Political Marketing (with N. O'Shaughnessy), Vol. 6, No. 2/3, 2007
• IMP 2007 Best Papers, Industrial Marketing Management (with P. Naude, J. Zolkiewski, X. Zhu), 2009
• Managerial Cognition and Business Networks, Industrial Marketing Management (with P. Naude and S. Mouzas), 2010

Currently, Stephan is preparing a Special Issue on Business-to-Business Service Networks for Industrial Marketing Management, to be published 2011.